Trouble at the Uptown
Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 10:44:39 AM
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI



There’s a lot of buzz going on at the Uptown Theater this week -- but it’s not the kind that owner Larry Sells looks forward to.

Sells has been deluged with faxes and e-mails begging him to cancel an upcoming event by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. In September, Kansas City Parks Board member Frances Semler got a standing ovation at the Uptown when conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham recognized the Northland grandma’s dedication to the Minutemen. Semler, appointed to the parks board in June by Mayor Mark Funkhouser, had been the center of local controversy because of her membership in the anti-illegal-immigration group that patrols the border and pickets worksites to deter undocumented migrants.

To show support for their Minutewoman and to “educateâ€